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F. V. ISOIRE DIT PROVENOAL. GAR- COUPLING.

v No. 309,058. Patented Dec. 9, 1884.

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UNrTnn STaTns PATENT @rricng FR-ANQOIS V. ISOIR-E DIT PROVENQAL, OF ST. FEEDER-IO, QUEBEC, CANADA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,058, dated December 9, 1884.

Application filed July 26, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, Fnancors Vrcroa ISOIRE DIT PROVENOAL, a citizen of Canada, residing at St. Frederic, in the county of Beauce, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CanOouplings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the same.

The object of my invention is the construction of a device by which anygiven car in a train of cars can be coupled or uncoupled from one given pointsuch as the tender of the engine, the brake-van, or any other point at which the operating-gear is located.

My improved device consists, mainly, of a shaft journaled to the under side of the earfioor, and to one side thereof, and provided with a tongue-and-fork coupling, so as to couple automatically into line when the cars are brought together. This shaft is provided with a cam or thumb set at a different angle on each shaft, and so placed as to lift the coupling-pin, which takes the form of a hook pivoted over and outside the center of the shaft and at right angle thereof. The shaft or line of shafts is operated by a crank and a train of wheels upon the tender, the brakevan, or other suitable point in the train. A

0 device regulating the position of the link is also provided, consisting of a spring liftholding up the projecting end of the link, and a projecting bar on the opposite car engaging the saidlifter and depressing the same to lower the link if demanded by the relative position of the two draw-heads.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan of a carplatform with the adjoining tender and part of another car. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an end View of a car, showing the coupling-pin lifted and the link uncoupled.

A A are car-platforms, and B is the tender.

0 are the draw-heads, and D the coupling- 5 links, all of the ordinary construction.

E are shafts journaled to the under side of the car-floor and near the side of the car, one end having a fork, c, with flaring mouth, and the other end a fiat tongue, 0, intended to enter the fork e, and automatically coupling the same rotatively. One of these shafts is placed at each side of the car, so that the ends 1 of cars may be reversed.

E is a cam or thumb placed near each end of each shaft, and each secured to the shaft at a different angle with any other in the same train.

F is the couplingpin, forming the pointof a hook pivoted outside of the shaft E, and over the same and the cam E. The shaft, which is journaled to the tender, (or to the car or point from which it is intended to operate the same,) carries a spur-wheel, G, geared by a train of wheels, H, to a pinion, I, upon the axle of which is secured a hand-crank, I.

K is a spring lifting-bar holding up the link, and L is an adjusting-bar on the opposite car, secured rigidly, and bent to engage the top of the projecting arm 7i? and to depress it, so as to allow the link to drop into the proper position to enter the approaching draw-head.

The device operates as follows: All the cars being coupled, the shafts E are also coupled rotativcly, and the entire line of shafts in one train may be rotated by the stokcr or other operative by means of the crank I, and in the course of one complete revolution of the line of shafts E all the coupling-pins F will have been raised and dropped again in succession. Vhen the pin F is raised, the link is uncoupled and the two corresponding cars may be moved apart.

If any particular car is to be uncoupled, a person will watch the corresponding coup ling-pin, and when raised will signal to the person turning the handle I, who, upon receiving the signal, will cease to work the crank, as the car in questionis then uncoupled and maybe moved off. In coupling it is only necessary to see that the crank is turned into such a position that none of the couplingpins are raised out of engagement with the link.

- Having thus claim is-- The shafts E, coupling automatically by means of forked and tongned ends into a line described my invention, what I along the whole length of the train, and havsubstantially as described, and for the puring cams E set at different angles from each pose set forth.

other, said line rotated at will by means of a crank and intermediate of wheels located at F. V. ISOIRE DIT PROVENQAL. 5 any suitable point in the train,'and lifting mark the coupling-pins F, pivoted over the said Witnesses:

cams, in combination with the draw-heads O, L. G. A. LE GENDRE,

links D, spring lifts K, and adjusting-bars L, J osEPH'MoRIN. 

